EDUCATIONAL IDEAS SIG

Rōpū Ariā Mātauranga

News:

Aims and Ends in Education

Christchurch, 29 August 2016

This one-day conference will include Keynote speaker, Assoc Prof John Freeman-Moir whose address is titled "Aims as Experience". he final programme can be downloaded here; and full list of abstracts to be presented downloaded here. Feel free to share these with your colleagues.

AIMS

This SIG aims to support researchers who have a key interest in educational theory and ideas. The SIG will foster the development, discussion and dissemination of rigorous theoretical work in education via papers and symposia at the annual NZARE conference and other events.

Research in educational foundations often occupies a somewhat marginalised position in contemporary universities and other tertiary institutions. Over the last decade, a number of scholars in this area have directed their attention away from NZARE to other more specialised research associations. There is much that can be gained, however, from bringing a range of theoretical voices to bear in addressing educational questions, and the annual NZARE conference provides a good opportunity for this.

Members are encouraged to organise seminars, symposia, research roundtables, and reading groups at their local institutions, and to draw these to the attention of others in the SIG.

Research undertaken by members of the SIG will also inform debates over the place of educational foundations (or educational studies) in teacher education programmes at individual institutions.The focus on ‘ideas’ signals a principal interest in educational theory, but the SIG is deliberately multi-disciplinary and inclusive in its orientation. Scholars from a wide range of different theoretical traditions will be welcomed. It is hoped that the SIG will provide an intellectual home for those who work in philosophy of education, theoretical sociology of education, cultural theory and education, and the history of educational ideas, among other areas.

NEWS

November 2014

At the joint AARE/NZARE conference in Brisbane later this year, this SIG will be combined with the ‘Educational Theory and Philosophy’ AARE SIG. We will have a stream of papers and symposia, and a combined SIG dinner is planned. SIG members are likely to be involved in reviewing abstracts/papers submitted under our SIG headings.

July 2014

A one-day conference in Auckland was held on 4 July with the theme ‘Partnership, Power and Education’. This was organised by a team at AUT (led by Leon Benade), with support from the convenors of the ‘Educational Ideas’ and ‘Education Policy’ SIG. Click here for a list of abstracts. Some papers will be published at a later date.

November 2013

It was good to see so many of you at the inaugural meeting of the ‘Educational Ideas’ SIG in Dunedin late last year.

CONTACT

If you are not currently a member then contact admin@nzare.org.nz to find out how you join.